Wars Are Dumb Book Release Party!

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At the start of 2012, we teamed up with Brooklyn-based literary publisher Annalemma magazine to challenge Orlando high schoolers to write about what adults do wrong and how they would do it right. After receiving over 200 submissions from all … Continue reading

Posted in Updates on 25th April 2012

The Friday Club

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Education, creation, pizza… …like the founding fathers before us, we hold these truths to be self-evident… Er, um, ahem… What is the Friday club, you ask? Only the coolest, hippest, craziest, most awesome, amazing, radical, tubular, bodacious, alasse’ eina, ever! … Continue reading

Posted in Updates on 21st February 2012

You’ve been waiting for it…

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The Page 15 Holiday Gift Guide is back! It features handpicked recommendations from Page 15 staff. And, like most gift guides compiled by voracious readers, it contains nothing but books! Books for everyone you can think of: babies, young writers, … Continue reading

Posted in Updates on 7th December 2011

The Best Books in Life Are Free

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It happens every year. We accumulate something like 2,000 kids’ books. They sit and pile up and sit some more, over winter, spring and summer, burdening us until fall rolls around and it’s time for Book Bound, our annual purging … Continue reading

Posted in Updates on 19th October 2011

PAGE 15 NEEDS ARCHITECTS

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And by architects we mean tutors. Why? Because simply calling our tutors “volunteers” wouldn’t be doing them any justice. No, as a Page 15 tutor, you are an Architect. You are not only helping students with homework (which is already … Continue reading

Posted in Updates on 3rd October 2011

Bound to Be Awesome

We just wrapped up our fourth annual Young Writers Summer Camps, where we published stories by more students than any other year. Not to mention, we got a new book binder! Say goodbye to those bulky white coils and welcome … Continue reading

Guys with Ties White Party

There is a great group of guys in Orlando who are quite fond of ties, as well as wearing all white. But what they really love doing is combining their fashion sense with raising money for charities. This coming Saturday, … Continue reading

The Fourth Time’s a Charm

We are so excited for our 4th annual Young Writers Camp this summer. Five more weeks of kids working with creative professionals (writers, illustrators, musicians–oh my!) to create a beutifully-bound original work of fiction. This year’s theme? Florida tourist traps … Continue reading

A Slammin’ Good Time

We just wrapped up our second annual Slam Camp, in which Orlando high schoolers worked with some talented local poets to write, record, publish and perform a piece of original poetry. One of our veteran poets, Saivon H (17, Edgewater … Continue reading